france wants the central bank to have ultimate responsibility. that's not to mention demands from the u.k., sweden, and the netherlands which makes us have stuart richardson, still with us, whether the banking union thing's going to happen. if so, when? >> i think the move toward some sort of banking union is in progress here. it has been -- european, a work in progress. so it would appear that sweden was coming out of thing yesterday, the dave before -- day before, they're not backing the full union. germany wants limited banking union. >> does it matter -- how urgently do we need this in place? >> i think it's one of the key issues that needs to be resolved within the whole european project such as fiscal and political union. i think that the -- if they're going do it, they might as well do it right. as an investor, to me it's not that important for the next one or two months of equity performance, for example. if they don't start to really flesh out what the framework it in the current time frame, i think the market could begin to get disappoi